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Example sentences for "colored woman"

  • In Simpson county, about the 1st of August, a father and his two sons cruelly whipped and abused a colored woman in their employ.

  • Much of their work is done by Germans, whose wives assist them.

  • There is probably as much diversity in the abilities of individual men to acquire a trade, as in those of women.

  • I have often bought articles merely for an excuse to talk with people, and gain information on their occupations.

  • In Slave States, a colored woman, graceful and good natured, is often set apart from the family servants for this purpose.

  • A colored woman, who goes on a propeller in summer, and does the cooking for ten men, told me she receives $19 a month.

  • True, a colored woman made a speech, but there was nothing in that to excite a multitude; she did not speak too low to be heard; she did not insult them with improper language; nor did the audience respond at all insultingly.

  • I know that it feels a kind o' hissin' and ticklin' like to see a colored woman get up and tell you about things, and Woman's Rights.

  • We had a white man first and then we had a colored woman teacher.

  • I worked with a colored woman down by the station for twelve or fifteen years.

  • The reason we finally left the place after freedom was because of the meanness of a colored woman, Amanda Sanders.

  • Shortly before we left the Bay, our landlady, a colored woman, introduced one of her neighbors, whose conversation afforded us a rare treat.

  • My mammy was her master's daughter by a colored woman.

  • A woman, colored woman, was here in Brinkley once seen her.

  • My papa said he knowed it to be a fact, the Ku Klux cut a colored woman's breast off.

  • A sudden change came over him, and he said: 'Do you think I would have you walk down the street with a colored woman?

  • I know red-handed murderers who walk in this Republic unwhipped of justice, and I have seen a colored woman sentenced to prison for weeks for stealing twenty-five cents.

  • But, just as Iola was leaving, she said to the matron: "I must be honest with you; I am a colored woman.

  • But how many men would be bound by a sense of honor where the rights of a colored woman are in question?

  • These men, having watched till the last moment for the arrival of a colored woman answering to her description, took their departure.

  • The day he expected to sail, he called at the house of a colored woman, and told her he had a good suit of clothes, too small for his own son, but about the right size for her little boy.

  • He went to Mr. Bussier immediately, and very civilly told him that he had called to make inquiry concerning a colored woman committed to prison as a fugitive slave on the evening previous.

  • He returned one day to his father's house, after a brief absence, and found the family dismayed and indignant at the kidnapping of a colored woman in their employ.

  • The first one we met was a colored woman, of whom I inquired where we could find a place to tarry for a night, and find provender for our horses.

  • I found in this camp of two thousand, a colored woman of an earnest Christian principle.

  • Rose was staying just then with a colored woman, who had known 'Mis' Herbert and her black husband and this girl Melanctha.

  • Brother, are you sure you saw a colored woman?

  • Why, uncle, there's not a colored woman in this house.

  • Don't you suppose I know a colored woman when I see one!

  • A colored woman stops to stare at the white one, plants herself directly in the stranger's path and demands, "Is you the investigator?

  • Down the street passed a colored woman, her head held high.

  • My mother and her sister and another colored woman and we children all belonged to one set of people--Miss Polly Lyles; and my father belonged to the Diggs.

  • They were as white as the white children nearly but their mother was a colored woman.

  • From her I learned that the doctor had written to New York to a colored woman, who had been born and raised in our neighborhood, and had breathed his contaminating atmosphere.

  • He told me there was a colored woman in Brooklyn who came from the same town I did, and I had better go to her house, and have my daughter meet me there.

  • He left six thousand dollars to his two sons by a colored woman, and the remainder of his property to this orphan niece.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being desirous; colored folks; colored glass; colored hair; colored lights; colored marble; colored people; colored person; colored persons; colored population; colored silk; colored troops; colored women; dear godmother; dull black; employs about; foreign merchants; half smile; highest good; never beheld; seldom seen; sixty cents; social control; thus defined; took leave; what applies